Yes sure, let me explain it more deeply. What I am trying to do is to split different comma separated values sent by a flume event to store them in separated HBase columns. For instance: val1,val2,val3,val4 into column1,column2,column3,column4
To do so, I have the next configuration: agent.sinks.hbaseSink.serializer.regex=^[^,]+,(.+),(.+)$ agent.sinks.hbaseSink.table=hbase_table agent.sinks.hbaseSink.columnFamily=column1 agent.sinks.hbaseSink.serializer.colNames=val1,val2,val3,val4 What I am looking for is a configuration which allows me to store these values into different columns. With configuration above I am able to store the values only one column like the following example: Column1 val1: firstPart, val2: This is the first part of the result, val3: thirdPart, val4:lastValue I hope it is more clear now. Thanks From: Jonathan Natkins [mailto:na...@streamsets.com] Sent: Friday, August 01, 2014 7:28 PM To: user@flume.apache.org Subject: Re: Flume to Hbase columns with regexp Let's be a little more explicit, since this result doesn't make a lot of sense to me: What is the value you have configured for agent.sinks.hbaseSink.serializer.colNames and agent.sinks.hbaseSink.serializer.regex, and can you give an example of the exact event that is coming into Flume? Is it still the same as you described in the previous email, or have you changed these values? Thanks, Natty On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 1:10 AM, Tinte garcia, Miguel Angel <miguel.ti...@atos.net<mailto:miguel.ti...@atos.net>> wrote: The result is the same that I put below, it inserts 2 values into one column: column3 col1val: firstPart col2val: This is the first part of the result From: Jonathan Natkins [mailto:na...@streamsets.com<mailto:na...@streamsets.com>] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2014 7:02 PM To: user@flume.apache.org<mailto:user@flume.apache.org> Subject: Re: Flume to Hbase columns with regexp What happens when you change the colNames parameter to col1val,col2val? The line should be: agent.sinks.hbaseSink.serializer.colNames=col1val,col2val On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 1:45 AM, Tinte garcia, Miguel Angel <miguel.ti...@atos.net<mailto:miguel.ti...@atos.net>> wrote: Hi Jonathan, My current configuration is the following: agent.sinks.hbaseSink.type=hbase agent.sinks.hbaseSink.channel=memoryChannel agent.sinks.hbaseSink.table=hbase_table # filling first column agent.sinks.hbaseSink.columnFamily=column1 agent.sinks.hbaseSink.batchSize = 5000 # splitting input parameters agent.sinks.hbaseSink.serializer=org.apache.flume.sink.hbase.RegexHbaseEventSerializer agent.sinks.hbaseSink.serializer.regex=^[^,]+,(.+),(.+)$ agent.sinks.hbaseSink.serializer.colNames=col1val # filling second column #agent.sinks.hbaseSink.columnFamily=column2 # splitting input parameters #agent.sinks.hbaseSink.serializer=org.apache.flume.sink.hbase.RegexHbaseEventSerializer #agent.sinks.hbaseSink.serializer.regex=^[^,]+,(.+),(.+)$ #agent.sinks.hbaseSink.serializer.colNames=col2val As you can see above, I have only been able to put one colName into a columnFamily, the second declaration commented didn’t work. The flume event is generated to store in the HBase table as a POST method with the next information: http://localhost:8080/flumeEvent/rest/data/inject?colval11=1&colval2=005&colval3=test With the following content: “This is a test for different columns” Thanks again From: Jonathan Natkins [mailto:na...@streamsets.com<mailto:na...@streamsets.com>] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2014 12:10 AM To: user@flume.apache.org<mailto:user@flume.apache.org> Subject: Re: Flume to Hbase columns with regexp Hi Miguel, What does your configuration look like after you made the initial changes? As far as I can tell, the HbaseSink only has the ability to load into one column family, so declaring two of them probably won't help. The fact that you're getting different values in the same column leads me to believe that your column values are split across multiple events. Is that accurate? What did the event that produced two values in one column look like? Thanks, Natty On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 2:10 AM, Tinte garcia, Miguel Angel <miguel.ti...@atos.net<mailto:miguel.ti...@atos.net>> wrote: Hi Jonathan, Thanks for your comments below. This is what I have been able to do so far (result copied from hbasexplorer): rowkey - timestamp column1 column2 column3 1406706418563-47PT7nzRvW-0 Show 1 Timestamp col1val: firstPart col2val: This is the first part of the result Therefore, I have been able to split the different colNval tokens (which is great) but I am still unable to store these split tokens into the different hbase table columns. I have tried it declaring two columnFamily and one value in the subsequent colNames parameter, but it didn’t work. Is it possible inserting these values into different columns? Thanks again From: Jonathan Natkins [mailto:na...@streamsets.com<mailto:na...@streamsets.com>] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 1:15 AM To: user@flume.apache.org<mailto:user@flume.apache.org> Subject: Re: Flume to Hbase columns with regexp Alright, a couple things: 1) It looks like my intuition was correct. Changing your config to be colNames from columns seems to get things working. 2) Based on the description of what you're trying to do, it looks like your regex might be slightly off. For example, if I had a row: familyName,col1val,col2val Your regex will result in column1 containing 'familyName', and column2 containing 'col1val,col2val', which I don't think is what you're trying to do. Probably you want to use this regex, or something like it: ^[^,]+,(.+),(.+)$ This regex will result in column1 containing 'col1val', column2 containing 'col2val', and the first value (which appears to be the family name) being thrown away. Is this what you were trying to do? As an aside, the mechanics of the RegexHbaseEventSerializer are to take the matching groups and map those to the list of column names defined by the colNames config parameter. If you want to toss any data away, just make sure it's not within a set of parentheses. Let me know if you have any more questions, or if you have trouble getting this to work. Thanks! Natty On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Jonathan Natkins <na...@streamsets.com<mailto:na...@streamsets.com>> wrote: I haven't tested this myself, but a quick look at the code suggests that your column name specification may be configured incorrectly. It looks like it should be: agent.sinks.hbaseSink.serializer.colNames = column1,column2 I'm trying this out myself, though, so if I find something definitive, I'll let you know. On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 4:19 AM, Tinte garcia, Miguel Angel <miguel.ti...@atos.net<mailto:miguel.ti...@atos.net>> wrote: Hi, I am sending a Flume event to insert some information into a concrete HBase table. My flume conf.properties looks like this: agent.sinks.hbaseSink.table=table_name agent.sinks.hbaseSink.columnFamily=idColumn agent.sinks.hbaseSink.serializer=org.apache.flume.sink.hbase.RegexHbaseEventSerializer agent.sinks.hbaseSink.serializer.regex=^([^,]+),(.+)$ agent.sinks.hbaseSink.serializer.columns = column1,column2 Basically, what I am trying to do is splitting the input values into three different columns: idColumn,column1,column2 With this configuration, no error is returned but no input is recorded into the table. Any idea about what am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance
